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<div class="">Dear Steven, as already said I don't agree on the voting mechanism and, as you have seen, there is not a consensus. I prefer that we before "solve" this question. </div>
<div class="">And sorry for asking you again, you who have been doing so much work for this Committee ( thanks a lot!!!): nobody answered me about how many motions were voted in the last year. I want to put myself in Cameron's clothes ( literally translated from italian;
😐probably in English you don't have this expression. In any case it is like "point of view") and understand pragmatically how much commitment was and is implied with respect to voting.</div>
<div class="">Thanks again and have a nice day</div>
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From: Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" class="">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> <br class="">
Date: 19/09/2016 23:16 (GMT+01:00) <br class="">
To: Maria Antonia Brovelli <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>>, Venka <<a href="mailto:venka.osgeo@gmail.com" class="">venka.osgeo@gmail.com</a>>
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] [Board] MOTION : Conference Committee - Updating Membership Policies and Process
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<div style="direction:inherit" class="">My problem is that there are now 77 mails in this thread and I am not sure whether you and Venka voted against our vetoed. If you did veto, how do the substantial majority of the committee who voted in favour find a way to resolve?</div>
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<div style="direction:inherit" class="">To me this doesn't seem a very effective way of reaching a decision on a relatively minor procedural change which apparently is not very different to the procedures in some other committees.</div>
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On 19 Sep 2016, at 21:57, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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</p><p class="">What I've noticed as part of many OSGeo Committees is that after a while, some of the members become less active and less responsive, and that is ok.<br class="">
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</p><p class="">A typical person's engagement is a little like a bell curve. They start off being respectful and quite during a learning phase, then get engaged and productive, often solving a particular "itch", then involvement tapers off as the person's interest are reprioritised.
When that person becomes less active, they typically have excellent advise based on experience, worth listening too. However, because the project is not the person's primary focus they are not monitoring or voting on day-to-day project activities.<br class="">
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</p><p class="">I'm suggesting our committee guidelines should allow for this engagement pattern, allowing old hands to provide advise when they have time and when practical.<br class="">
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0 or +1 (it requires just a couple of seconds). If there are doubts, better to discuss it in such a way to find a larger consensus. Sorry, but I really don't see the problem.</p><p class="">Cheers.</p><p class="">Maria</p><p class=""><br class="">
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